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Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: It is welcome that the Government recently recommitted to the SDGs, as the Taoiseach outlined, with the launch of the new national implementation plan up to 2024. I wish to speak about two goals. Goal 6 concerns clean water and sanitation, which speaks to an issue in my constituency of Dublin Bay South. I welcomed the recent announcement by the Minister for Housing, Local Government and...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: -----and ask the Government to rule out the developments relating to liquefied natural gas, LNG, and the proposal to build LNG terminals.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: He did not deal either with my question on Thalidomide.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Sustainable Development Goals (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the senior officials group chaired by his Department to provide a strategic overview of the implementation of the sustainable development goals. [55385/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government information service unit of his Department. [55389/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: On the GIS, who in the Taoiseach's Department now oversees the commissioning and production of television and radio advertisements generally for Government information campaigns? Is there political oversight of these advertising campaigns? I welcome the news that the Taoiseach will be meeting the Irish Thalidomide Association tomorrow, 17 November. It is a long overdue meeting....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I wish to raise the issue of the Spiritans and the horrific abuse of children perpetrated at Blackrock College. I am glad that, in response to my question yesterday, the Taoiseach has committed to a debate on the matter in the House next week. I welcome the apology from the Spiritans this morning and the announcement of an independent process, but we still need to consider having a public...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I understand.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Absolutely.

Energy Regulations: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I am glad to speak on this motion. We are aware that energy prices have risen across Europe. That is not in question, but there are particular factors at play in Ireland. Bloomberg is reporting that the biggest monthly gains in electricity costs are in Dublin, where power rates have climbed by 44%. Similarly, the costs of gas and other fuels are going up and up. We can no doubt attribute...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Programme for Government (16 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 53. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide the commitments in the Programme for Government under his remit; if each commitment has been met or is in the process of being met; and the estimated timeframe for same in tabular form. [55391/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Could I take 30 seconds for the Taoiseach's response on Iran?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 13. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on housing will next meet. [52891/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Housing Provision (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Internal records from the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage revealed last Thursday in the Irish Daily Mail confirmed the Housing for All targets are not adequate to meet the growing need. When the Government plan was published, the Labour Party made it clear that Ireland needed close to 50,000 homes per year, rather than the target of below 30,000 under Housing for All....

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: Fáiltím an Ceann Comhairle ar ais. When the Taoiseach attended the European Political Community forum in Prague on 6 October, the protests in Iran were only a few weeks old. Tomorrow marks the two-month anniversary of the tragic death of Mahsa Amini in Iran. Since then, more than 300 people have died over two months of demonstrations, and as many as 14,000 may have been...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Political Community meeting in Prague and the informal European Council meeting. [55384/22]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: I commend the immense courage of all of those who have come forward in recent weeks to disclose abuse by the Spiritans and other religious orders following the powerful "Blackrock Boys" documentary on RTÉ radio. I thank the Taoiseach for agreeing at my request to schedule a debate on these allegations and the horrific and widespread abuse that appears to have been perpetrated. In...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: We should have statements this week on the serious issue of allegations of child sexual abuse that have been made arising out of the RTÉ documentary and disclosures since then into the Spiritans, Blackrock College and other schools. It is a huge issue. My colleague, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, and many others have called for an independent inquiry and survivors have also been...

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: On behalf of the Labour Party, I want to express my deepest sympathies to Vicky’s family, in particular to her husband, Jim, her children, Amelia and Darragh, her parents and the extended Phelan and Kelly families. Our condolences also go to all of the 221+ group, Lorraine Walsh, Stephen Teap and to many others, to Vicky's friends and to our own colleague, Deputy Kelly, who was very...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Departmental Functions (15 Nov 2022)

Ivana Bacik: 133. To ask the Taoiseach if a climate action unit has been established in his Department. [55387/22]